Allied Air Offensive Surges Across Europe in 31st Day
American Flying Fortresses and Liberators pounded German invasion defenses along Pas de Calais in the 31st day of the air war. The raid followed a night of German bombing on the British coast and targeted France and Italy as RAF Mosquitoes aided daylight strikes. One Mustang crew member was missing after anti-aircraft fire.
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London
Pas de Calais
Britain
U. S
France
Cologne
Brenner Pass
Italy
Berlin
Bristol
England
Low Countries
Fortress Europe
Bom‘bardiers
Avision
Brenner Gap
Alps
Eighth
Gustav Line
Mediterranean Air Force Headquarters
RAF
Chinese Offense Opens Across Western Yunnan Frontier
Chinese high command reports large forces crossed the Salween River on May 10 in a 100 mile front aimed at linking with Stilwell's troops in northern Burma and breaking the China blockade. Casualties were heavy as Maj. Gen. Chennault's Sky Dragons supported the drive.
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Yunnan
Salween River
Joseph W. Stilwell
Burma
Claire L. Chennault
Sky Dragons
Wanpahsa
Burma- Thailand
Mangshih
Lungling
Wei
Loyang
Chungking
Suiping
Chumatien
Kamaung
Stilwell
Tojo Reassures Nation As Axis Propaganda Pushes Morale
Premier General Tojo told Japanese listeners the German armed forces are confident and impatient as Allied invasion nears. BBC broadcasts urged Europeans to evacuate near rail and industrial targets. Rommel is hailed as potential Reich savior amid invasion fears.
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London
Hideki Tojo
Europe
AFL Leader Outlines Postwar Plan For Full Employment
President William Green of the AFL urged a postwar program aimed at full production and full employment at decent wages. He spoke to the Toledo Committee for the Study of the Organization of Peace, linking high wage standards to job security and calling for prompt war contract termination after peace, broad social security legislation, and prudent taxation.
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Toledo
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Toledo Committee For the Study of the Organization of Peace
AFL
Green
War Workers Build Financial Backlogs
Washington report notes a survey of 50 plants shows 90 percent of workers would need to cash war bonds if jobless. The average worker could survive about three months without income, prompting concerns over financial buffers amid wartime employment.
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Washington
Harness
Ind
Timken Opens South American Subsidiary After War Growth
The Timken Roller Bearing Co reports forming a South American subsidiary to meet postwar industrial expansion. A freight train struck an automobile stalled at a crossing near Alger, Willing, killing two year old Norma Louise King, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles King, as parents and five other children rushed the car from the tracks. the mother sustained minor injuries.
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Timken
Canton—4
Timken Roller Bearing Co
South America
Ada
Alger
Norma Louise King
Charles King
Canadian Frigate Valleyfield Sunk in North Atlantic
Ottawa reports the Canadian frigate Valleyfield was torpedoed and sunk on escort duty in the North Atlantic. Five dead, 121 missing, 38 survivors. Valleyfield built at Quebec and commissioned last December as the first American frigate sunk.
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Ottawa
Valleyfield
North Atlantic
Quebec
Twenty Women Army Officers Graduate at Columbus
Twenty officers of the Women's Army Corps were graduated from the Army Services Forces depot school in Columbus on Saturday.
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Columbus
Women’s Army Corps
Army Services Forces Depot School
Joshua C Bowser 97 Civil War veteran dies in Columbus
Joshua C Bowser, a 97 year old Civil War veteran, died yesterday in Columbus. He is remembered for his long service and family ties in the community.
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Columbus
Joshua C
Bowser
Texan backs Bricker presidential bid from Texas team
Washington report states Mark McLean, chairman of the Texas Republican State Finance Committee, gave full support to Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio for the GOP nomination. He said Bricker would gain delegate strength from Texas and issued the statement from Bricker for President Headquarters.
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Washington
Mark McClean
Texas Republican State Finance Committee
John W. Bricker
Ohio
McLean
Manpower Recruiters Rally In City Streets
War Manpower Commission recruiters drove mobile units through Cincinnati using a button holing drive to find 6 000 additional workers for local war plants. A 14 man crew led by Kenneth F Ermiich canvassed passersby in poolrooms cafes and other public places.
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Cincinnati
War Manpower Commission
Kenneth F. Ermiich
Lancaster
Plans Complete For Army Navy E Award At TNT Plant
West Virginia Ordnance at Point Pleasant will host the Army Navy E Award ceremony Tuesday at 4 30 pm with Col T C Gerber as lead speaker. Commander Wilson Starbuck will read the citation and present the token pin as a 12 member committee, D C Mason as master of ceremonies, and Parkersburg High School band provide color and music.
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Point Pleasant
D. C. Mason
General Chemical Company
Ordnance Works Guard Force
E” Burgee
Parkersburg High School
Army and Navy
Orders Priest To Monastery
SPRINGFIELD Mass Reverend Stanislaus Orlemanski, longtime pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary Church, remains in seclusion after a bishop’s suspension. He did not attend four masses following theFlying Mission to Moscow, and has been ordered to a monastery indefinitely with priestly privileges stripped.
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Springfield
Mass
Stanislaus Orlemanski
Our Lady of the Rosary
Moscow
Thomas M. O'Leary
O'Leary
Orlemanski
Josef Stalin
Hospital Attachers Exonerated in Deaths
NORWICH Conn there was no criminal negligence involved in the deaths of five infants at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital New London from boric acid mistakenly administered as dextrose Coroner Edward G McKay reported today The report exonerated Miss Paula Machnick the hospital pharmacist noting that on the morning the error was made she had filled 250 orders and that her helper was a man ordinarily employed about the hospital as a porter and who lacked professional knowledge.
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Norwich
Conn
Lawrence and Memorial Hospital
New London
Edward G. McKay
Paula Machnick
Gandhi Diagnosed With Malaria Amebic Dysentery
A medical bulletin reports Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian nationalist leader, is afflicted with malaria fever and amebic dysentery. The note confirms his illness while he remains under medical care.
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Bombay
Medical Bulletin Today
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Nation Pauses To Pay Tribute to War Mothers
The nation paused to honor war mothers with ceremonies in Indianapolis Chicago and Columbus. Esther McCabe of Lilly Pennsylvania named No 1 War Mother for having 10 sons in service. Air hero mothers Patsy Gentile Dora Bong and I B Johnson broadcast Messages of courage. Blanche Lightburn of Crestline Ohio named 1944 State Mother.
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Associated Press
Esther McCabe
Lilly
Indianapolis
Chicago
Patsy Gentile
Piqua
Ohio
Don Gentie
Dora Bong
Poplar
Wis
Richard Bong
Wton
Okio
Robert. A. Johnson
Europe
Bong
Blanche ‘Taylor Lightburn
Crestline
Columbus
Lightburn
American Mothers Committee
Golden Rule Foundation
New York
Statehouse Rotunda
Roosevelt delegate totals near 677 as primaries loom
New York reports 22 convention delegates for Roosevelts fourth term as California New Jersey primaries decide on first ballot nomination. Delaware and Montana expect to back the President, with Washington adding 18 votes over the weekend and a 677 pledge total by Tuesday, surpassing the 589 needed.
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New York
Oklahoma
Calfornia
New Jersey
Roosevelt
Delaware
Montana
Washington
Reported Lower Coal Output
Washington Harold L. Ickes said the week of May 6 saw a drop in bituminous and anthracite coal production from the prior week. Bituminous output was 12,150,000 tons versus 12,360,000 the week before, while Pennsylvania anthracite fell to 1,278,000 tons, down 66,000 from the prior week.
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Washington
Harold L. Ickes
Solid Fuels
Ickes
Pennsylvania
Currency Stabilization Seen Needed After War
Brig. Gen. Leonard P. Ayres of the Cleveland Trust Co. argues postwar trade will revert to pre 1939 conditions and call for an international currency stabilization fund. He notes sharp price swings affecting war production in coal machinery transport equipment and chemical outputs.
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Cleveland
Leonard P. Ayres
Cleveland Trust Co
Winter Wheat Harvest Draft Drains Country of 3 Million Bushels
Ohio winter wheat growers estimate a harvest of about 45,946,000 bushels for this year, up from 26,433,000 last season. Egg production rose to 338,000,000 in May from 316,000,000 in April 1943. Robert McCall Jr. drowned when a raft sank in Plum Creek. Dr. George Granger Brown warns selective service drains the nation of capable young technicians amid wartime needs.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
Robert McCall, Jr
Plum Creek
Yester
Cleveland
George Granger Brown
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Michigan
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Brown
America
Gustav Line Breached as Allied Forces Drive in Italy
Allied forces led by Americans, British and French broke the Gustav Line with a major advance from Cassino toward the sea. Ausonia fell as 2,000 German prisoners were taken. heavy fighting, new breaches, and mounting casualties reported along the front from Cassino to the Liri and Rapido valleys.
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France
Italy
Gustav Line
Ausonia
Cassino
Santa Maria Infante and
San Pietro
Garighiano
Ausente
Stalingrad
Fifth Army
Nazis Admit West Wall Penetrable
German broadcasts acknowledged that West Wall defenses may be penetrated when battle starts. Berlin commentators warned fighting could extend beyond the Atlantic Wall as small forces strike, challenging Germany in its greatest test.
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London
UTM
Berlin
Atlantic Wall
Germany
Americans Break Nazi Hold on Santa Maria Infante
After a bitter, bloody fight, American forces drove the Nazis from Santa Maria Infante at noon yesterday, advanced toward a road junction northeast of the town, and fanned out to seize San Pietro and the hills Monte Cerri and Monte Bracchi near the Ausente River, then renewed the assault on Spigno.
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Santa Maria Infante
San Pietro
Monte Cerri
Monte Bracchi
Ausente
Spigno
Allied Break Through At Cassino Front With Fresh Gains
Allied forces push along the Liri valley absoring key heights including Colle Can telupo and Colle San Giorgio. Germans retreat and reinforce as Polish and Gurkha troops press near Cassino while U S engineering teams repair bridges under fire. Air superiority yields 2,500 Allied flights with 10 Nazi planes downed. Russians regroup for Poland Romania push as Soviet bombers illuminate Brest-Litovsk and Polotsk.
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Garig
Montesiano
Liri Rinchiuso
Colle Ag
San Gorgio
Rnfoglio
San Andrea
San Ambrogio
Mating Heights
Ausonia
San Appolinare
Liri
Gen
Eral Alphonse Juin
Gustav Line
Hitler
San Angelo
Rapido
U. S. Army
Garigliano
Cassino Formia
Arunel
Poland
Romania
Brest-l Litovsk
Polotsk
White Russia
Narva
Estonia
Dnestr River
Homedreds
Naai
Recruits Men for War Jobs in Cincinnati
War Manpower Commission crews hit Cincinnati streets to enlist 6,000 new workers. Regional director John M. Baker said many calls come from wives, bartenders, and sisters demanding work for idle or part time workers. The effort aims to locate and recruit the errant men.
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Cincinnati
War Manpower Commission
John M. Baker
WMC
Baker
Fierce Rites To Be Held on Wednesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Clara Fierce wife of Carl Fierce will be held Wednesday at 2 p m at Greens Run Church with Rev G B Courtney in charge Interment will be Maplewood Cemetery Survived by children Mrs Hazel Adams Columbus Miss Ethel Fierce Detroit Mrs Opal Burgess Los Angeles Donald Fierce New York City Loren Fierce Greens Run Darrell Fierce in Italy and Mrs Elizabeth Roberts Columbus Also two brothers Loren and Clifford Andrews Hollister two sisters Mrs Jennie McLaughlin Hollister and Mrs Belle Lyons West Virginia
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Glouster
Clara Fierce
Carl Fierce
Greens Run
G. B. Courtney
Maplewood Cemetery
Darrell Fierce
Italy
Elizabeth Roberts
Columbus
Loren
Clifford Andrews
Hollister
Jennie McLaughlin
Belle Lyons
West Virginia
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BBC
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